Interesting to know your opinion about today's news of them giving the basic accounts back (I've just published a post about it on Profy but I think the majority of LJ users will never agree with my point of view).
- Svetlana Gladkova

hmmmm, looks like Jaiku had interesting "time machine" glitch, as I wrote this thing many weeks ago, yet topic of Livejournal is so dear for me that I feel necessary to add more below...
- A. T.

It's not time machine, it's just me searching for what people had to say about basic accounts cancellation back in March. And having LJ topic so dear to oneselfe is soooo Russian :)
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl

imho Livejournal deserves very special post in general, but with lack of time... While I do not deny money thing, I want to note that other variants could be considered but... It won't. SUP has decided to make mainstream media from LJ, hence makes all steps in that direction, and basic accounts MAY BE stay free for while but eventually this is gonna be 100% MONEY MACHINE WITH NICE ADD-ON FOR POLITICS BRAINWASH. It doesn't match with original Christiania http://tinyurl.com/y7kmfn ideas behind...
- A. T.

Unfortunately, nobody tried really during original and 6apart-part of era to experiment on business level, with other kinds of incomes - hence Fitzpatrick eventually cashed.in from 6apart and gone, and communities were left facing bloody SUP coming to 6apart with stashes of cash... Tragedy of commons in it's classics.
- A. T.

Yes, definitely! I've had a chance to talk to Sup guys in Paris in December days after the acquisition and they actually told the community did not matter and they did not care how many accounts are deleted because of it. Strange they have changed their minds this time and decided to listen to users
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl

@profy: if that was their approach, there must have been some effect to the bottom line
- Count Caturday

@Alex: Well, at least I was shocked to hear a CEO talking like this about its users like this. But I guess when some point is reached and you start to lose money heavily because of the users' revolt, you just can't help but listen to them.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl

I'm going to be in TelAviv from Thursday this week through Thursday next week. Unfortunately I'm part of a tour so every minute is already accounted for, sorry. We might have a blogger dinner on Monday night, though. More on that to come soon on my Twitter account.
- Robert Scoble

Take a break from Tech and see Petra in Jordan, my parents went and its now top on my list of life to-do's
- Kevin